So all the recent news on North Korea got me on a tear for NK information. Here’s all the great stuff I’ve dug up so far — all awesome, well-worth-your-time reading and viewing:

- The Axis of Evil Tour: North Korea is a highly informative journey into modern North Korea. Includes a yelling match. Start here for background information.

- Escapee gives glimpse of North prison camps — this guy was born in an NK prison camp. “Due diligence” requires that a political prisoner’s entire family is imprisoned alongside them, including their children for the next three generations. Thus, some people are born prisoners. Insane.

- Speaking of life in a North Korean prison, Aquariums of Pyongyang is an autobiography about a man who spent ten years in an NK prison and managed to escape. I’m picking this up today, and I know it will depress the hell out of me. But I can always play Fallout 3 to cheer myself up. People in North Korean prisons can’t.

- BRASS BALLS: Hipsters from Vice Magazine managed to hide cameras in their beards and sneak them into North Korea. The amazing documentary footage is a must-see. Includes a tour of the U.S.S. Pueblo (captured by North Korea in 1968), empty roads, villages w/o electricity, as well as the interior of a N. Korean hotel room — which looks very much like the “hotel” room in Old Boy. Coincidence???

That’s it folks. Eat a hamburger and be glad to be a citizen of the outside world.